Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Love like a Starfish


How I longed to write a love poem
Truths of longing and reciprocating guile
To crack life in the jaw rocketing skyward
To see the heavens in irises gleaming God’s grace

The nude tempest of the verboten lairs nesting in volition
To explore behind the plastic shores of the commercial mire
To dare love true likes vigilantes amongst the comatose bar denizens
Hocking the perfumed allure of the now to wade into the eternal

Marked in a moment to sip upon the chalice of the vulnerable ale
I am here inside you exposed for love be not the happy lush,
But the crackling vagabond opened raw knowing there be no escape
A soul is given shameless in need of the other

For prick does bleed, for gaze does awaken paradise
The humble servitude of knowing a heart into a hand to be crushed
Or cherished like a supernova exploding divine
Exalting love into the interconnection of ages in presence

How close the siren’s song does tear the threads of my aspirations
Flittered like stardust washing away in the crimson tides at her feet
Swaddling for a mermaid’s tail and glittering into nothingness
Pondering reality and fantasy into a baleful farce

How I longed to write a love poem
Escaping the prismatic labyrinths for a time dreaming upon iterations
Of the concrete revolutions to see the same wall in seasonal colors
Reminded of the lessons learned and forgotten

Lamenting the crest of the waves sweetness wafting in my plucked heart strings
A lyre to the opera of being eaten alive finger by finger like a starfish
Praying he does grow back yet again
Thinking of her stomach acids annihilating me in a stew of a man’s attempt

How I longed to write a love poem
Vulnerability in the crux knowing the definition of unrequited love

Is the release to be destroyed present in one and absent in the other   

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